Xournal: Please, help me with my first port

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Sat Jan 22 12:54:33 UTC 2011


On 21 January 2011 21:46, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de> wrote:
> Finally, I found an application worse having that is not in ports and looked
> simple enough to try: Xournal is my first attempt to create a new port.
>
> I followed the handbook and did the basic testing with porttools: There are
> warnings about considering to use DATADIR if the port was DATADIR-safe, but
> I do not assume it to be.
>
> Moreover, there is a warning about my post-patch line. I think the warning
> is wrong, but I am unsure about that line anyhow. The desktop-install target
> in Makefile.in is wrong for FreeBSD, but there is probably a better way to
> fix it.
>
> Is my attempt to use the desktop-install target via post-install correct?
>
> Do all the files installed by the post-install target go to the correct
> locations?
>
> Is there anything else I should fix before submitting the port as pr?
>
> In case the attachment does not make it to the list, I have placed a copy
> here: http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/sylvester/xournal.shar
>

The DATADIR whines are addressed in this patch, have a look:

http://www.bayofrum.net/~chris/patches/xournal-pkg-plist.diff

That's all I had time to look at at the moment, perhaps others can help!

Chris


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